A miner's life doesn't sound glamorous or easy, to be sure, but the attraction of the hunt, and the desire to discover that next big find, has drawn people to Coober Pedy and other mining and prospecting towns around the globe.
It was all down to business, McShane says ruefully: the vagaries of a complicated production deal, not to mention the expensive manner in which the series was made, with the entire cast and crew based near the set (which reproduced a South Dakota gold-prospecting town), and creator David Milch often faxing performers their pages only hours before shooting.
It is the wateriest prospect in town.
The suspect, Aldain Thomas, 19, was accused, with Vaughn Garrick, 27, and Craig Holnan, 17, of entering the Prospect-Lefferts town house with a key to burglarize it.
Such is the kind of blunt arithmetic that defines the lives of thousands of young Poles: their generation may be hailed for being so worldly and well-travelled, but those qualities are often traceable not to joyous wanderlust, but a deep pessimism about the prospects of towns like this.
After 20 years, Shell left and evangelical Christians moved in — embarking on their own kind of prospecting from the town's small airport.
But the prospect of the town's recapture by the Ottomans led to Mekhitar's decision to take refuge in Venice.
Competition among the three newspapers was intense, and they often clashed about issues such as city council meetings, a permanent bridge over the Chena River, and the mineral prospects of the town of Iditarod, where gold had just been discovered.
It's hard to tell what excites barbecue geeks more whenever a new barbecue joint comes to town: the prospect of smoked meat or the chance to argue about it.
His other publications on panoramas included London from the Roof of the Albion Mills: A Facsimile of Robert and Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of 1792-3 (1988) and A Prospect of Britain: The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (1994).
